Theard Aladin was born in Jacmel, Haiti on October 12,
1925. For most of his life he was a stonemason and farmer. At the end of 1983,
he injured his back and was unable to continue his trade. For months he
languished, doing odd jobs and looking for a way to support his wife and seven
children
In the fall of 1984 he had a dream that told him that he
was an artist. Theard was a cousin to the renowned Haitian painters Prefete
Duffaut and Pauleus Vital. He painted his first painting the next day , and for
the next two years painted in a small house on the Ruelle George in Carrefour,
in the company of a group of other transplanted Jacmellians, Maurice Vital,
Martino Gabriel and Lorcin Vital, as well as the son of Pauleus, Edouard Vital.
In 1987 He moved with his family to a small house on the
top of a limestone cliff overlooking Carrefour, where he lived and worked until
his untimely death from heart disease at 7am on Tuesday, August 17, 1993.
